[Air-L] W3C Workshop: Do Not Track and Beyond
Seda Guerses
sguerses at esat.kuleuven.be
Tue Oct 16 00:46:06 PDT 2012
for those of you who are following the dnt debate, this may be an interesting opportunity to pitch in different perspectives.
best,
s.
W3C Workshop: Do Not Track and Beyond
26-27 November 2012
http://www.w3.org/2012/dnt-ws/
Call For Participation
Background
Out of the April 2011 W3C workshop on Web Tracking and User
Privacy, W3C chartered its Tracking Protection Working
Group, which commenced work in September. The Working Group has
produced drafts of Do Not Track specifications, concurrent with
various implementations in browsers and Web sites and along
side heightened press and policymaker attention. Meanwhile,
public concern over online privacy — be it tracking, online
social networking or identity theft — remains.
For more info about the past workshop and ongoing Working Group:
http://www.w3.org/2011/track-privacy/
http://www.w3.org/2011/tracking-protection/
Goals and Scope
This workshop serves as a forum for the W3C membership and the
public to discuss the Consortium's next steps in the area of
tracking protection and Web privacy. What have we learned from
Do Not Track standardization and real-world implementations?
Furthermore, undoubtedly support for privacy on the Web
platform cannot end with Do Not Track: what should we look at
next and beyond DNT?
The workshop is geared to a broad set of stakeholders,
including implementers from the mobile and desktop space, large
and small content delivery providers, advertisement networks,
search engines, policy and privacy experts, consumer advocates,
and other parties with an interest in Web tracking, tracking
protection and related technologies. We specifically invite
participants from industries that might respond to a Do Not
Track preference or use DNT and related technologies for user
transparency and choice beyond online behavioral advertising:
including, for example, email marketing, mobile application
development and online social networking.
Topics for discussion include, but are not limited to:
* Directions for, and input to, the W3C Tracking Protection
Working Group's ongoing work on Do Not Track.
* Preliminary implementation experience and impact
evaluations of Do Not Track and related approaches.
* Candidates for future W3C standardization on tracking
protection in particular, and on user privacy on the Web in
general.
* Trends in online privacy issues and potential techniques to
address new concerns.
Participation Requirements
All participants are required to submit a position paper by
22 October. W3C membership is not required and there is no fee
to participate in this workshop.
Your paper must meet the following criteria:
* explains your interest in the Workshop
* aligned with the Workshop's stated goals as outlined
above.
* 1 to 5 pages long
Submit a position paper via email to: team-privacyws-submit at w3.org
Important dates
22 October Deadline for position papers
26-27 November Workshop
To facilitate travel after the US post-holiday weekend, the
workshop will begin at 2pm on Monday the 26th, and close by 6pm
on Tuesday the 27th.
Chairs
* Nick Doty, W3C
* Jan Schallaböck, ICPP
For more information, please contact Nick Doty, W3C <npdoty at w3.org>
Venue
The Workshop will be hosted by UC Berkeley, in the Sutardja Dai
Hall, in Berkeley, California. Thanks to Yahoo! for sponsoring
the Workshop.
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